Hamish Fulton (1946 – )
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WIND THROUGH THE PINES (TWO WALKS MARCH 1985 AND APRIL 1991) 1993 Hamish Fulton (1946 – ) P6382
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TASMANIA IV 1979 Hamish Fulton (1946 – ) P3860/4
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SONG PATH (TWO WALKS JANUARY 1992 AND JANUARY 1993) 1993 Hamish Fulton (1946 – ) P6383
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HOLE LANE, CANTERBURY 1971 Hamish Fulton (1946 – ) P3765 © The Artist
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SEVEN DAYS WALKING & SEVEN NIGHTS CAMPING IN A WOOD IN SCOTLAND (ONE WALK, SEPTEMBER 1985) 1993 Hamish Fulton (1946 – ) P6379 © copyright The Artist
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WORLD WITHIN A WORLD HORIZON TO HORIZON 3 1973 Hamish Fulton (1946 – ) P2063
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TASMANIA II 1979 Hamish Fulton (1946 – ) P3860/2 © The Artist
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THE CROW SPEAKS (TWO WALKS SUMMER 1991 AND JUNE 1986) 1993 Hamish Fulton (1946 – ) P6377 © copyright The Artist
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TASMANIA I 1979 Hamish Fulton (1946 – ) P3860/1 © The Artist
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GEESE FLYING SOUTH (ONE WALK SEPTEMBER 1990) 1993 Hamish Fulton (1946 – ) P6381
Hamish Fulton was born in London and studied at St Martin’s School of Art and at the Royal College of Art, in London. Both during, and just after, his time at St Martin’s, Fulton made several visits to the USA, travelling extensively, and began there to be interested in presenting landscape as sculpture, with the aid of photography. Unlike his contemporary Richard Long, Fulton leaves no formal mark or intervention on the land through which he travels nor does he exhibit works of art other than those captioned photographs, or more recently prints, which evoke his experience of the journey. Initially only one work represented each journey, with such extreme economy Fulton made clear that his photographs do not document the landscape nor record the duration, but rather aim to condense his experiences, functioning like the roadside cairns they sometimes record, as signs or mementoes of a human act. The communicative power comes from the resonant texts which accompany Fulton’s work; the texts are not an attempt to give a complete description: some give only selected objective details of place, time, distance; others have more subjective details of the artist’s state of mind. Of his work Fulton wrote in 1981: "I do not make sculpture in the landscape involving permanent alterations and changes to the earth’s surface, as my intention more and more is to be influenced by nature, and nature (the natural environment) is not man-made. My art is a passive protest against urban societies that alienate people from the world of nature."
Photography as Medium, The British Council 1981